Television Without Pity » Friday Night Lights » Extended Families  [ By Drunken Bee ] : Tim looks out the door and remarks first that he is Canadian, and then that her rain gutter is cockeyed: "Yeh know, eh, yer rain gutter's fallin' off." [does this mean that the content of his remark is, first, the actor's accent? (is the actor from Canada?) I think so, like this recapper has the thing with telling us what Kyle Chandler's hair is saying] She says she's got a long list of things to do. With work, Bo, and homework, she's got her hands full.
Bo runs up and hands Tim an 8x10 picture of himself. He says, 'I thought you might want to have this,' and Tim responds, very cutely, 'Well, you thought right.' The fact that this kid is handing out his 8x10 kills me. Like, don't you get only one of those in the package?

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Smash drives Waverly home and asks her if she's feeling okay. If by "okay" you mean "in the midst of a manic phase," then I'd say all signs point to yes!Waverly tells him that she's "alive" and "feelin' the world." Smash doesn't buy it, so she finally 'fesses up that she had been taking medicine for a mood disorder but she stopped taking them. She says she's better, she's got it under control, and she doesn't need drugs to keep her straight. Which makes me wonder whether she ever knew about Smash and the steroids, and also whether that storyline is over? I don't particularly care -- as long as this show keeps me flush with Matt and Julie and various butt-slicing melodramas, they can flush continuity straight down the drain -- I just want to know if I can check that subplot off the list or what. Like I thought for a while that Voodoo would come back, just because I loved that one fight he and Smash had over who was playing better hip-hop music when in reality they were both playing equally good hip-hop music and if they had just stopped fighting over it then maybe they could have co-existed, except they kept fighting and now look, are there any decent rappers coming out of New York OR L.A. these days? No. It's all coming out of Richmond or Virginia Beach. Which is weird, right? And now Voodoo is gone and we'll never know. If I had been instructed more clearly HOW and WHEN to check him off my list, I wouldn't be going on trying to make demented comparisons between a fight two characters once had and the East Coast/West Coast conflict of the early '90s. Or maybe I would. We do not know.

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In Austin, Jason and Lyla get back to his room. Lyla wanders around the world and asks, "Do you love her? You love her, don't you? Do you love her?" Jason doesn't know what she's talking about and she says "the cute tattoo girl." Lyla is a bit slurry as she says, "No, it's okay, its okay, you love her!" Jason says he's never seen her this wasted. Girl needs to get out more if this is as wasted as she's ever been in eighteen years. Jason tells her she's funny when she's drunk and she slumps onto the bed and says, "It's not funny, Jason, when you drive all the way from Dillon and you find your boyfriend hanging out with people who scare you and getting tattoos from sexy girls. It's not funny! It's not funny, Jason." She starts breaking down and crying and says that he's changing and she's not changing with him and they're never going to last because she's not changing with him. Aw. It is hard to be in love in high school. ["Every time Lyla gets on one of these tears, I start out all 'bitch, YOU CHEATED ON HIM so SHUT UP' but by the end of the scene, she's got me sympathizing with her. EVERY time. Amazing." -- Sars] Jason reaches out to her and apologizes that he wasn't taking her seriously. She says that "it's okay because it's bigger than us," I guess trying to reassure herself that they didn't do anything wrong to make their love fail, but that sets Jason off onto one of his romantic tirades and he says forcefully that nothing is bigger than the love he has in his heart for her. Lather, rinse, repeat. These kids need something new to do.

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Tyra stands up and tells Tami to stop pretending she cares about the Collettes. Tami protests, but Tyra goes on, telling Tami that she found out that Tami won't let Julie hang out with her any more. Tami's face registers real regret that Tyra knows this. Tyra continues, telling Tami to stop acting superior in her house, that she isn't a friend of the family. Tyra, in tears, shouts at Tami, "Go home!" Tami is quiet for a second and then, questioningly, "Tyra?" as she steps over some debris, following the girl into the kitchen. God, Connie Britton is a careful actress. She levels with the kid: "It's just that...Julie's my girl." She explains that she might be blaming Tyra for how Julie's been acting even when it might just be that Julie's growing up. She gives Tyra a glimpse into the heart of a functional mother, saying that she thought she'd be able to handle all this and know what to do, but she doesn't, and she feels like a big freight train is coming in her direction and she's just trying to stop it. Tami apologizes to Tyra, who just says that she'll get the broom. Connie Britton goes off to a corner to contemplate the next step in her program of awesome world domination.

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Tami comes out, dressed cozily in sweatpants and t-shirt after her long night, and sits down next to her husband with coffee. Eric tells her that he got the call. "TMU made the offer." Tami nods, and they look off in different directions around their house and exhale, "Wow." Looks like we're on our way back to a few more Coach-centric episodes. And we all know who is psyched about that prospect. That's right. The Hair.______________________
saw a couple episodes of this show on Saturday, replaying on Bravo. several episodes back. so now I am into and impressed with the show. I like Tami a lot and Coach, I like Tyra (I always like the single-troubled-mother & daughter story). and Drunken Bee is seeming to me like a great recapper.
is it remarkable that writing about tv can appeal a lot to me where the same person's writing about themselves (on their blog) does not?
as with the dlcs notes, people's remarks show an aspect of personality I like, and their self-presentation as such does not?